Hi. I’m hoping to get a few Halloween manis posted before the big day. With only a few days left, I’m not sure what I can accomplish, but I’ll give it a try. I also want to put up my Halloween haul.

First up, I was inspired by a great spider web design by PixiePolish. I hate spiders, but I loved her beautiful orange and black design. When it came time to do it, though, I found the prospect of hand painting all those webs daunting, especially using my non-dominant hand. (Maybe I’ll try it with an accent nail later.) Then I realized that one of my Bundle Monster stamping plates has a spider web design! Yay!

Here’s the result. Do you like the eerie prop? It reminds me of The Blob from the old horror movie!

To do this mani, I used Bizarre Blurple from the China Glaze Wicked collection for the base coat. It’s such a rich, dark purple-blue, I thought the webs would contrast well. I used Konad white for the webs to ensure I got good coverage. The plate is BM13.

If I’d hand painted the webs, I would have overlaid them with Fairy Dust from China Glaze, a lovely sheer holo, to give a glistening effect. I also considered using a silver for the stamping. Maybe next time.

My son found a really weird black and orange gourd when he bought our Halloween pumpkin, so I took some shots with that.

Doesn’t it look delightfully creepy? I think it looks like it’s about to devour my hand. lol

I think the only thing scarier than the gourd in these pictures is the state of my cuticles, but they don’t look that bad when they’re not magnified about 600 percent!

Have you figured out what mani you’re going to do for Halloween? Please share!